Hopeful Neuron

Join us for an enlightening conversation with Angela Clark, a renowned speech therapist and expert in child brain development. In this episode, Angela delves into the fascinating world of speech therapy, exploring how it supports children's cognitive and social growth. She also sheds light on Melillo's Method, a revolutionary approach to addressing developmental and neurological disorders in child...

Join us for an eye-opening episode with Dr. Christy Sutton, a leading expert in integrative and functional medicine, as we delve into the complex world of iron and its impact on health. In this episode, Dr. Sutton dispels common myths and misconceptions about iron, shedding light on both iron deficiency and iron overload. What You'll Learn: The essential role of iron in the body and why it's cruci...

Join us for an enlightening episode with Jessica McGuire, a renowned vagus nerve specialist, as she dives deep into the world of the vagus nerve and its crucial role in our health. With over 13 years of experience as a physiotherapist, Jessica now focuses on teaching how to repair and optimize the nervous system through the vagus nerve. In this podcast, Jessica explains: -What the vagus nerve is a...

In this enlightening episode, we're joined by Janelle Boychuk, an expert in pediatric nutrition and wellness, to discuss the importance of mineral testing for children. Janelle will shed light on how mineral imbalances can affect a child's health, behavior, and overall development. We'll explore the various methods of mineral testing, what parents should look for, and how to interpret the results....

In this enlightening episode, Dr. Yvonne Chong takes us on a journey into the fascinating world of neurofeedback and its impact on children’s facial expressions. Dr. Chong, a renowned chiropractor with ICSC and FIBFN-CND certifications, will delve into how neurofeedback can be a game-changer in understanding and improving children’s emotional health. She’ll share her insights on the science behind...

Podcast Episode: Balancing the Brain - Insights with Dr. Melissa Wittman This episode I welcome Dr. Melissa Wittman, a leading expert in Functional Neurology, Nutrition, and Nervous System Regulation. Join us as we delve into the intricacies of brain health, exploring how functional neurology and targeted nutrition can profoundly influence nervous system regulation. Dr. Wittman shares her extensiv...

This is an extremely interesting video podcast with Gemma and Birinder about their experience dealing with seizures and different neurological difficulties with their children. The progress made is amazing. Gemma and Birinder want to share the hope this can bring with parents struggling with similar issues. Gemma is the founder of Neuro Frontiers: neuroplasticity therapies research and practice. &...

Chat with Dr. Michael Bagnell about  Functional Neurology and healing.  In this fascinating Interview with Dr. Michael Bagnell we speak about his clinic and about intensive treatment at Bagnell Brain Center in Miami, Florida where he treats children and young adults with brain related challenges and issues. We discuss the hemispheric module and neurofeedback being used as part of the tre...

Chat with Dr. Michael Bagnell about  Functional Neurology and healing.  In this fascinating Interview with Dr. Michael Bagnell we speak about his clinic and about intensive treatment at Bagnell Brain Center in Miami, Florida where he treats children and young adults with brain related challenges and issues. We discuss the hemispheric module, Melillo's Method and neurofeedback being used...

Rachael Singer is a Founder of Rachael’s Moving HeARTS,  she is a certified dance/movement therapist using floor time methodology to engage children on the spectrum or children with developmental or challenging behaviour to help them relax and calm in a supportive environment. Rachael also trains and coaches adults on how to understand their children better and how to play and reconnect with...

Chat with Matt about sensory gym and how to help children with sensory difficulties. we talk about our senses especially about the vestibular and proprioceptive senses, how to get kids to relax before bed and why is it important to work on core, coordination and sensory integration to support children's development. Matt gives practical tips to implement at home    Check your child devel...

Dr. Patrick Porter is a brain researcher and the inventor of BrainTap. We talk about sleep, relaxation and light therapy and how can our brain recharge itself by getting enough deep delta sleep. What are the different brain waves and how can we tune ourselves to relax and reduce stress and promote relaxation.   =============================================================================...

In this chat I talk to Mona Delahooke about the Polyvagal theory and ways to help children when they shut down or when they are in a fight or flight state. I speak to Dr. Mona about her book "Beyond Behaviors" that shifted the way I looked at parenting looking at behaviors as the tip of the iceberg and focusing on developing meaningful relationships. As parents we need to pay attention to the impo...

Kelly Mahler has been an occupational therapist for 18 years, serving school-aged children and adults.  Kelly is an international speaker and presents frequently on topics related to sensory integration and interception in particular. In this chat we speak about ways to help kids on the spectrum to understand the signs we get from our body and how to help them thrive. Dana has a FREE assessme...

In this chat I speak to Alex about sensory kids and swings, the input swings and other ways to help children on the autistic spectrum.  Alex Lopiccolo known by the name The king of Swings is an OT specializing in designing sensory rooms and swings for private use. He is running Sensorimotor Workshop as an instructor and designs Home/Therapy Clinic Sensory Gym equipment.  Alex Lopiccolo's...

In this video I talk to Dr. Sharik Peck about his invention and how to use the tuner to tune your body's energies in order to promote relaxation calm and healing. There are many ways to promote emotional regulation and methods to help integrate primitive reflexes faster using the Rezzimax Tuner Pro as it trains the vagus nerve to calm down our nervous system.  This tool is being used as a the...

In this chat I speak to Lauren Butcher about Mini-Mindfuls course and the concept of mindfulness and meditation for children, the benefits and the way she incorporates learning through play.  We also talk about stress relief for children and adults and the benefits we can expect from her course and from mindfulness in general.  Lauren found a way to reconnect to her child through mindful...

In this chat I talk to Sheila Frick the founder of Vital Links about sensory kids and auditory therapeutic listening, a program I attended more than 8 years ago which impacted my son's ability to focus, improved his speech and his motor skills, coordination and communication. Sheila has well over 40 years of clinical experience, having worked in psychiatry, rehabilitation, and home health before s...

In this facinating chat I talk to Afshan about emotions and how to help our children express a wider range of emotions that will help them through life. We talk about the affect of breathing and relaxation techniques, 'Emotional Fitness' and why is it important to implement it in day to day life and the relationship between the emotions and behaviour.. Afshan has become a sought-after expert of em...

Listen to this eye opening chat with Dr. Kyle Daigle in which we discuss the importance of working on the primitive reflexes and helping children using multi sensory holistic approach. Kyle is a chiropractor who utilizes a special treatment which combines multiple fields of science - from Chiropractic, Low Powered Lasers, Vibration Therapy, Physiotherapy, Applied Kinesiology, and Clinical Nutritio...

Gaynor is a an experienced teacher, who has always had a passion for bringing out the best in her students. Now, she combines her years of teaching experience with RMT, to investigate the possible roots of difficulties and work with them from the foundation, upwards. We talk about awareness to the primitive reflexes role in normal development and the signs you should look for as a p...

 Dr. Laura Markham is the founding editor of AhaParenting.co m she   also serves as a parenting expert for many websites, makes frequent TV and radio appearances and has been interviewed for thousands of articles by publications as diverse as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Real Simple, Newsday, Men's Health, Redbook and Parents Magazine. Over 140,000 parents subscribe to he...

Daniel Ansari is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology  at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, where he heads the Numerical Cognition Laboratory.  Ansari and his team explore the developmental trajectory underlying both the typical and atypical development of numerical and mathematical skills, using...

In this fascinating chat with Professor Ockelford we talk about the ways to help children on the autistic spectrum through music. While attending the Royal Academy of Music in London, Adam started working with children with special needs - a number of whom, he noticed, had special musical abilities too.   He was intrigued by just how musical many of them seemed to be. Trying to understan...

This is fascinating talk with Dr. Maya about children's health and nutrition following the 3 foundations: -Getting exposed to germs and microbes  -Eating fresh food from healthy soil -Getting outdoors into nature   Dr. Maya believes that children’s bodies naturally have the capacity to be healthy and heal when they have the tools to do so. Her plan starts with the soil, using fresh foods...